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I have installed Lubuntu 18.04 on an old Inspiron 9300 laptop. It runs okay with nouveau driver, but the application I need to work with requires the proprietary Nvidia driver.

I have tried to install Nvidia 304 driver on 18.04 but it doesn't build! I also installed Ubuntu16.04 and tried the PPA driver installation with no success. I have no idea how to solve this problem.

Any advice?

Gordster
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paolo becchi
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  • Why didn't you install https://packages.ubuntu.com/bionic-updates/nvidia-340 from repositories? Is there a reason you opted to build your own instead? I would have tried sudo ubuntu-drivers install and let your Ubuntu do the work for you first, or did you try that and have reason to do it manually? (https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto) (Sorry i misread 304/340) – guiverc Mar 18 '20 at 07:00
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    Does this answer your question? Can't install Nvidia drivers on Ubuntu 18.04 – guiverc Mar 18 '20 at 07:04
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    The 304 driver has to be patched to work, but even that doesn' t work with newer kernels. I got it to work using the information/comments in this bug report, but not with the HWE kernel. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nvidia-graphics-drivers-304/+bug/1737750 – Organic Marble Mar 18 '20 at 12:47
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    The key information for patching the driver is here: https://adufray.com/blog/2018/06/02/nvidia-304-127-on-bionic – Organic Marble Mar 18 '20 at 12:57
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    Thanks for all your suggestions! I guess that I should be more precise about the test i have already performed: on 18.04.1 kernel 5.3.0 i have tried driver from all sources ( Nvidia site, PPA ,.Adufray patch ...) No one install successfully. – paolo becchi Mar 19 '20 at 10:37
  • In addition i have tested on 16.04 kernel 4.15 and installed PPA driver , but after reboot the xserver fail to start. Do i have to use an older kernel? – paolo becchi Mar 19 '20 at 10:50

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I have a similar situation. Rather than downgrading kernel I'm waiting for working patch 5.3+. It would be cool to have a working patch that can be applied to extracted NVIDIA-Linux-x86_64-304.137.run archive. I found the blog post about a guy who implemented such a patch for Debian (can it be ported on ubuntu? and how? idk). 304 patch for 5+ kernels

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